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Identification

Country

Papua New Guinea

Title

Public Expenditure and Service Delivery Survey 2002

Subtitle

A survey of 220 schools

Study Type

ID Number

PNG_2002_PESD_v01_M

Version

Version Description

Final datasets, edited.

Production Date

2004

Overview

Abstract

This survey is part of a multi-country pilot study which combines surveys of primary schools with household and other micro surveys to assess service delivery systems in education, measure performance, and establish a baseline for examining the impact of policy and institutional reforms over time.

Work on the PESD project was launched in late 2001 as part of the World Bank’s analytical work on poverty in PNG. The project was launched in close consultation with the Government of PNG and AusAID.8 Work on the PESD survey started in early 2002.

The survey operation itself was implemented by the Education Department of the National Research Institute (NRI) in Port Moresby.

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

The PESD survey covered 214 schools in 19 districts across 8 provinces --Counting NCD as a province-- out of a total of 20 in the country, with two provinces selected in each of the four main regions.

The following provinces were covered:

- Southern (Papua) region: Gulf; National Capital District (NCD)

- Highlands region: Enga; Eastern Highlands

- Momase region: West Sepik (Sandaun); Morobe

- Islands region: West New Britain; East New Britain

These provinces cover a wide spectrum both in terms of poverty levels and educational development. They range from the relatively rich (NCD and Gulf with headcounts of 19 and 28%) to the poor Sandaun (headcount of over 60%), from the well-educated (NCD and East New Britain with adult literacy rates of 84 and 74%) to poorly-educated (Enga and Eastern Highlands with adult literacy rates of 26 and 38%), from those with high primary enrolment (NCD and ENB) to those with low enrolment (Enga, Gulf and Sandaun), from those with high grade 1-8 retention rates (NCD with 79%) to those with low retention rates (Eastern Highlands and Sandaun with just above 20%).

Producers and Sponsors

Primary Investigator(s)

Name

Affiliation

National Research Institute, Port Moresby and Deon Filmer (World Bank)